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<p>This episode: Certain phages in the gut are linked with increases in performance on some cognitive tests!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF484.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (7.5 MB, 10.9 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <em>Streptomyces bikiniensis<br /></em></p> <p><a href= "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220222135138.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a></p> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div> <div>Our gut microbiota includes a large number of viruses, mostly bacteriophages. These fall into two groups, the lytic kind that infects and reproduces itself immediately in a host, and the lysogenic kind that can integrate its genome into the host bacterial genome and remain dormant for long periods.<br /> <br /> In this study, a higher proportion of lysogenic phages was correlated with increased performance on ...